Example sentences of "man who was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother tried to persuade the woman who had received the letters to let her talk with this guard ; a man who was actually in touch with her husband . |
| 2 | The testimonies in the book were obtained mostly from the underlings of the house , led by sly , supportive Bert , a man who was able to take and to give pleasure — a fine portrait , which is also a self-portrait , of a second father . |
| 3 | In Ackroyd 's life of Eliot we read about a major poet who was a good ventriloquist ; a man of multiple personality who swore by a principle of impersonality in art which he was later to unswear by locating The Waste Land in the stresses of a domestic life , and whose art bears the indelible signature of that distinctive protean character of his ; a man who was often miserable and tormented . |
| 4 | He glared at Mr Catlett , who quailed before this rare intimidation from a man who was normally jovial and kind . |
| 5 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 6 | But the RUC said last night : ‘ The victim of this foul murder was an entirely innocent man who was on his way to work . |
| 7 | He personified the pre-war amateur at his peak , a kindly engaging man who was well placed to have been a major influence in the game had he been of a more forceful character . |
| 8 | As Bishop Winiata said , they were farewelling a legend — a man who got things done , a man who was prepared to lay down his life for his friends . |
| 9 | Certainly the author of ‘ The Man Who Was King ’ for whom savages were interesting , if rather silly , became the reader of the romantically tinged Frazer , but essentially Eliot 's view of ‘ civilization ’ went deeper than gramophones . |
| 10 | He was whistling that stupid little old song of his about the man who was scared to go home in the dark . ’ |
| 11 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 12 | Williams was a man who was able to hold many apparently contradictory ideas in harmony . |
| 13 | But in September 1985 he joined forces with a man who was to play a large part in changing all that . |
| 14 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 15 | In 1966 , he met Sergio Galeotti , the man who was to shape his destiny , at the seaside resort of Forte dei Marmi — where Armani still has a beach house today . |
| 16 | That was conceded in an interview yesterday by Dr Kenneth Abrahams , a member of the National Front and a former Swapo man who was thrown into jail by Mr Nujoma . |
| 17 | The chances of the man who was seen as a contender for the presidency until a few days ago , the former leader , Mr Alexander Dubcek , winning the post are now seen as receding . |
| 18 | Mr Reynolds , a dignified man who was Illinois 's first black Rhodes scholar , wondered if Mr Savage would like to ban Jewish contributions to the United Negro Colleges Fund . |
| 19 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 20 | He became , in short , a story in his own right , the man who was said to have used his great power as Downing Street 's anonymous twice-daily briefer to belittle ministers whom Mrs Thatcher intended to dispose of . |
| 21 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 22 | The leader of this threat is Nik Aziz Nik Mat , a humble-mannered man who was elected chief minister of Kelantan after a working life spent teaching in the mosque next to his birthplace . |
| 23 | They resented the way in which the Chancellor interfered — in effect though not in theory — with their judgements , by prohibiting the man who was successful at Common Law from putting them into force . |
| 24 | Because of his death , aged just forty-two , he is also thought of as a tragic figure , a man who was unable to fulfil the important public service to his people that seemed to be his destiny . |
| 25 | One man who was attendant to the condemned men said that cell 13 became like a church . |
| 26 | Mark smiled the appreciative smile of a man who was just looking , not buying . |
| 27 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 28 | Why would anyone want to go and see a man who was a coward ? |
| 29 | Perhaps it could also mean loving a man who was n't there and did n't deserve to be loved . |
| 30 | Dot realized she 'd already left to visit the man who was a gutless jink . |